Snappening: Snapchat leak is real

The Snapchat nudes leak is a real thing, now dubbed 'The Snappening' after the iCloud leak was referred to as 'The Fappening'.

Videos and images of around 200,000 people, which were stored on a third party website, have been put online. This time, it doesn't just focus on celebrities.

It appears the third party site in question is Snapsaved.com, which allows users to grab a screenshot of the Snapchat images that usually expire after a few seconds.

Snapsaved appears to have saved not only the images, but also, the users' login details so that, in the torrent that stores all the images, you can search for images under people's usernames. This third party is not to be confused with Snapsave, which only stores images on the phone of the user.

4chan, as ever, were the ones to announce the 13 gigabytes of images, but one of the problems here is that much of the content could be from underage users, meaning that anyone who distributes the photos or hosts them, could be in legal trouble for hosting child porn or sexual images of minors.

In a statement, Snapchat said that: “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we explicitly prohibit in our terms of use precisely because they compromise our users’ security.”